New Scientist writes about China’s recent gains in the scientific fields:
Very quietly, China has become the world’s second-largest producer of scientific knowledge, surpassed only by the US, a status it has achieved at an awe-inspiring ra…
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – China has set up a government agency headed by Premier Wen Jiabao to better coordinate energy policy, as world’s second-largest power consumer faces growing domestic demand and struggles with shortages.
A former top executive of a State-owned enterprise has been arrested over allegations he accepted money from people on the mainland to place bets in Macao special administrative region, one of the biggest gambling centers in the world.
Increasingly, music videos in China are not only a form of entertainment but carry a political message – sometimes subtle, sometimes not – as well. See this CDT translation for an example. ChinaHush has also translated the lyrics of another…
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Even if Google’s stand against censorship leads it to close its search engine in China, the company still hopes to maintain other key operations in the world’s most populous Internet market.
Lite-On IT Corp, the world’s second-largest CD drive supplier, set up shop in Beihai in the southern part of Guangxi Zhuangzu Autonomous Region on Jan 22.
China Eastern Airlines is set to decide which major world airline alliance it will join in mid-February, China Business News reported Tuesday.
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Entrepreneur Corner shares an optimistic perspective on venture captial in China.During the past several years, China has gradually become one of the most attractive investment markets in the world, largely due to the diversifica…
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Steel prices in China, the world’s biggest producer of the metal, dropped the most in four months last week as inventories piled up and concerns grew that the government may curb lending.
A giant panda breeding research center in Southwest China’s Sichuan province launched a program Monday to recruit 30 volunteers from around the world to care for giant pandas during the Spring Festival holiday.